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| A Proper Seeking After Divine Knowledge, Which Will Never Be Out of Place or Excessive, is Always Within the Rule of Faith.
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Chapter XII.—A Proper
Seeking After Divine Knowledge, Which Will Never Be Out of Place or
Excessive, is Always Within the Rule of Faith.
As for us, although we must still seek, and
that always, yet where ought our search to be made?
Amongst the heretics, where all things are foreign1989
and opposed to our own verity, and to whom
we are forbidden to draw near? What slave looks for food from a
stranger, not to say an enemy of his master? What soldier expects to
get bounty and pay from kings who are unallied, I might almost say
hostile—unless forsooth he be a deserter, and a runaway, and a
rebel? Even that old woman1990
| 1990 Although Tertullian
calls her “anus,” St. Luke’s word is γυνή not γραῦς. | searched for the
piece of silver within her own house. It was also at his
neighbour’s door that the persevering assailant kept knocking.
Nor was it to a hostile judge, although a severe one, that the widow
made her appeal. No man gets instruction1991
from that which tends to destruction.1992
No
man receives illumination from a quarter where all is darkness. Let our
“seeking,” therefore be in that which is our own, and from
those who are our own: and concerning that which is our
own,—that, and only that,1993
which can
become an object of inquiry without impairing the rule of
faith.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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